Particle-Based Imaging Tools Revealing Water Flows in Maize Nodal Vascular Plexus.

ABSTRACT: In plants, water flows are the major driving force behind growth and play a crucial role in the life cycle. To study hydrodynamics, methods based on tracking small particles inside water flows attend a special place. Thanks to these tools, it is possible to obtain information about the dynamics of the spatial distribution of the flux characteristics. In this paper, using contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we show that gadolinium chelate, used as an MRI contrast agent, marks the structural characteristics of the xylem bundles of maize stem nodes and internodes. Supplementing MRI data, the high-precision visualization of xylem vessels by laser scanning microscopy was used to reveal the structural and dimensional characteristics of the stem vascular system. In addition, we pr

SUBMITTER: Zubairova US 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9228485 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature